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Title: Guinea Pigs Online
Subtitle: Guinea Pigs Online 1
Author: Jennifer Gray, Amanda Swift
Narrator: Oliver Hembrough
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-17-15
Publisher: Quercus
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
Publisher's Summary:
In this hilarious adventure for elementary school listeners, a team of lovable, fuzzy guinea pigs gets online to solve their mysteries.
Fuzzy the guinea pig is a great friend to have - he's always cheerful, he cooks like a pro (his specialty is ketchup and dish soap), and he loves to surf the web. His stylish hutch-mate, Coco, is Fuzzy's best friend, though even she can't understand his fascination with computers.
When Fuzzy goes missing, though, Coco is forced to get online for answers. On the social site Micespace, she learns that her friend could be in terrible danger, so Coco assembles an extraction team to get him back: Terry, a technology whiz whose computer skills are second to none; Banoffee, a mother of 14 with the organizational and motivational powers to match; and Eduardo, the heroic (and very handsome) Peruvian freedom fighter. Will Coco and her guinea pig commandos find a way to rescue Fuzzy and get back home alive?
Members Reviews:
Fun book
My 8 year old daughter liked this book. She said it was fun and that she wants to read the next one. I liked that it has nice talking points about online safety.
For Guinea pig lovers!
It was a great book, it was fun to read, except it did not have enough computers for the name "Guinea Pigs Online". They only went on the computer twice, in the whole book. I still recommend it though it is very cute! I don't read much but I read this. (Written by my son who lives cavies and computers.)
A Gripping Adventure, With A Few Laughs, for Your Early Reader
This book is great fun. Coco and Fuzzy, (who are guinea pigs), talk, scheme, adventure, surf the internet, and exchange dry and pithy bon mots. Fuzzy is tech savvy; Coco is a bit posh because she once belonged to the Queen. What's not to love? It's as though a slightly smarter Bertie Wooster and Jeeves ate mostly lettuce and lived in a hutch in your bedroom. (Anyway, when I read that the two visited a social networking site called "Micespace" I knew I was going to like this author.)
In this episode of the Coco and Fuzzy series, (number two of at least four "Guinea Pigs Online" books), the two guinea pigs are deposited at Furry Towers, a supposedly elegant pet hotel, while their owners go out of town. Furry Towers is a dump and a front for shady dealings, and Coco, Fuzzy and their fellow prisoners have to plan a break out. The story partly runs as a goof on the movie "The Great Escape", which is pretty sly for a kid's book.
A number of interesting secondary characters complement our two heroes. My favorite was Edouardo the macho Andean Agouti guinea pig, who lives in the thicket behind the yard and harasses the foxes. There are a few regulars from book to book and then a few guest characters in each individual book so there is a lot of variety. And these characters have well defined, engaging and individual presences, which is sort of amazing for an early reader book, when you think about it.
The writing is very accomplished. There is never a hint of condescension, and the author clearly has a lot of respect for her kid readers. The descriptions and the plotting are neither too thin nor belabored, so that the story moves along at a nice pace but never loses the reader. The whole thing feels light and airy, but there is a lot of craft at work under the surface.
